Members can use taxpayer dollars to communicate with constituents, including send pieces of mail. Blaha takes issue with a flier that arrived in Colorado Springs’ voter mailboxes at the end of March that touts Lamborn’s National Journal “Most Conservative Members of Congress” ranking[4]. The mailer does not tout his campaign and sends constituents to his Congressional website.

“As a taxpayer, I have raised this issue before,” Blaha said, in a statement. “This behavior typifies the entitlement mentality of the permanent political class.”

Lamborn was first elected to U.S. Congress in 2006.

His office said the mailer, like all mailers, was approved by the bipartisan “franking commission” before being sent out.

“Once again, Mr. Blaha displays his profound ignorance of Congress,” Lamborn spokeswoman Cat Mortensen said, in an email. “Congressman Lamborn believes it is important to communicate with his constituents.”